No its not reasonable at all, if the wheel bearing in your car went in six months you would be fuming

and before you say not comparing apples ,yes i am a bearing which runs in completely shitty conditions year after year, the only difference being the actual load capacity and the penny pinching which you can get away with to some dgree with a bigger capacity bearing ,and there in lies the problem a lot of these so called designers of said bikes have **** all clue about actually speccing a bearing for its purpose

No its not reasonable at all, if the wheel bearing in your car went in six months you would be fuming

If it was in my car which does 6k/yr I'd be concerned, but definitely not "fuming". I don't do fuming, or angry, or ranty internet posts or anything like that. Total waste of emotion. People need to get a grip of their emotions a bit more.

But that's an asides - my car does about 6k/yr. My mate has the same car and does about 45k/yr as he is a field sales rep. Same product, same timeframe, different outcomes due to different conditions and usage. Simply incomparable.

I'm simply saying that a component should last a reasonable length of time, functioning as was intended. If I buy a bike and a bearing fails or the chain snaps as I ride it home is that covered by the warranty?

Assuming it was normal use and the component failed then it was not fit for purpose and they will replace the part not the bike. However that has nothing to do with what is being discussed or what you claimed
though you now seem to be saying that the SOGA explains how the shop can reject it rather than insisting they "stand up for their rights"

If it was in my car which does 6k/yr I'd be concerned, but definitely not "fuming". I don't do fuming, or angry, or ranty internet posts or anything like that. Total waste of emotion. People need to get a grip of their emotions a bit more.

But that's an asides - my car does about 6k/yr. My mate has the same car and does about 45k/yr as he is a field sales rep. Same product, same timeframe, different outcomes due to different conditions and usage. Simply incomparable.

I'm making a hypothetical comparison to illustrate that 2 seemingly similar sets of circumstances can be very different.

Instead of trying to use SOGA or whatever as some kind of black & white thing or worse still, a weapon to try and force an unreasonable course of action, it would be better to be reasonable.

In the OP's case, that "reasonable" course of action is to pop down to the local bearing suppliers and buy (very cheaply) some spare consumable parts and not waste time, effort, emotion and general internet bullshit bandwidth on something like this.